I Won a Newspaper Award!

Gabby Perez,  Advertising Manager for the Muleshoe Journal, was recently notified that the newspaper won four awards in the Panhandle Press Association Better Newspaper contest. The winners were announced July 24th in Amarillo, and I got one of them. What a...

Methodists Honor MISD Teachers

New Muleshoe ISD teachers started their school year Friday. Returning teachers had their first day Monday. Retired teachers who happen to be Methodists wanted to give them all a positive send-off in this year of the unpredictable. So a thank-you bag was put together,...

COVID Care Packages

When Family Consumer Health agent Kathy Carr and secretary LeeAnn Helton at the Bailey County Texas Agri Life Extension Service heard the Rejino brothers in Olton were taking meals to COVID patients there, they wanted to do something for virus patients in Muleshoe and...

Road Trip to South Padre Island

We  chose the hottest week of this summer to make the two-day trip down to the southernmost tip of Texas to play in the water and eat lots of shrimp and fish at South Padre Island, across the causeway from Port Isabel. All three families-us, Caroline’s, and...

Jean Allison, 1922-2020

When I mentioned to daughter Caroline, who had Jean Allison as a teacher, that Mrs. Allison had died, she just smiled and said, “Everybody loved Miz Allison.” Then, at Jean’s funeral service, as nephews Steve Osborn and Larry Allison shared stories, more than once it...